The Great Exhibition of 1851 : new interdisciplinary essays / Louise Purbrick, editor.
Contributor(s): Purbrick, Louise
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BookSeries: Texts in culture.Publisher: Manchester, UK ; New York : Manchester University Press : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2001Description: x, 217 p : ill. ; 23 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0719055911 ; 071905592X .Subject(s): Great Exhibition (1851 : London, England)DDC classification: 907.4421 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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The Great Exhibition of 1851 has become a touchstone for the nineteenth century. The Crystal Palace produced a commodity world, an imperial spectacle, a picture of capitalism, a liberal dream, a vision of modern life. Historians have saturated the Great Exhibition with meanings.This collection of essays exposes how meaning has been produced around the Great Exhibition. It contains a series of critical readings of the official and popular historical record of the Exhibition. Critics and historians of art, culture, design and literature have been brought together to examine the objects, the images, the documents and the fictions of 1851. Their essays explore the determined use of industrial knowledge, the contested definitions of nation and colony, and the actual control of the space of the Crystal Palace after the Great Exhibition closed.The Great Exhibition of 1851 presents new interpretations of one of the most significant exhibitions in the nineteenth century and will be essential reading for anyone studying cultural history, design history, art history and literature.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-209) and index.
The accumulation of knowledge or, William Whewell's eye -- An industrial vision: the promotion of technical drawing in mid-Victorian Britain -- Entrepreneurship and the artisans: John Cassell, the Great Exhibition and the periodical idea -- An appropriated space: the Great Exhibition, the Crystal Palace and the working class --Narrating the subcontinent in 1851: India at the Crystal Palace -- Thackeray and Punch at the Great Exhibition: authority and ambivalence in verbal and visual caricatures.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- The Accumulation of Knowledge or
- An Industrial Vision: The Promotion of Technical Drawing in Mid-Victorian Britain
- Entrepreneurship and the Artisans:
- the Great Exhibition and the Periodical Idea
- An Appropriated Space: The Great Exhibition, the Crystal Palace and the Working Classes
- The Official Catalogue of the Great Exhibition: Progress, Political Economy, Imperialism
- Narrating the Subcontinent in 1851: India at the Crystal Palace
- Thackeray and Punch at the Great Exhibition: Authority and Ambivalence in Verbal and Visual Caricatures